belindapearl
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Patient with a diabetic ulceration that has not improved with regular debridements 11042 and 97597.
I recommended today that we excise the wound and suture it. After block 1% lidocaine plain in H-type fashion the foot was prepped and draped in the usual fashion and a sterile 16 blade was utilized to excise the wound down to bone. The area was copiously lavaged with sterile saline solution. We then sutured the ellipse with 4-o nylon. It closed well.
Would it still be 11043 even though he sutured it?
Patient with a diabetic ulceration that has not improved with regular debridements 11042 and 97597.
I recommended today that we excise the wound and suture it. After block 1% lidocaine plain in H-type fashion the foot was prepped and draped in the usual fashion and a sterile 16 blade was utilized to excise the wound down to bone. The area was copiously lavaged with sterile saline solution. We then sutured the ellipse with 4-o nylon. It closed well.
Would it still be 11043 even though he sutured it?